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Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little.

Stella Adler
Character, Past, Imagination
"‘The Truth of Your Art Is in Your Imagination’" by Rue Faris Drew, www.nytimes.com. August 15, 1976.
Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little.